Cultivation is just so scientific!

Chapter 1996: Chapter 1044: Acquisition (Part 2)

The Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground transformed into a jade box that landed on the Sword Servant’s palm; ancient mastery over space allowed the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground to exist within this jade box.

However, once the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground was taken into the jade box, it could no longer connect to that specific spatial node, and thus could no longer draw in energy; the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground entered a halted state.

The Sword Servant glanced around; because the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground had been collected, the Formation here vanished along with it.

He did not linger; his figure flickered and he left the seabed, arriving at the surface of the sea.

He continuously exerted spatial ability, and after a short while returned to Li Taibai’s side.

He handed the jade box to Li Taibai, then stood in the void himself, taking over Li Taibai’s defensive position.

During this period, Grandmaster Hu had finally seen what a Great Power truly was; Li Taibai stood in the void, and anywhere on the battlefield within the entire area, as long as a Cultivator encountered danger, Li Taibai would point a finger and a bolt of lightning would slay the spirit beast and rescue the Cultivator.

If not for his desire to let the Ten Thousand Beast Sect’s Cultivators temper themselves—this kind of battle was of considerable benefit to them—Li Taibai could probably extinguish the beast tide with just a few casual strikes.

One must know this battlefield was spread across nearly a Baili in radius; over such a vast range, Li Taibai alone could cover everything—how could this not leave Grandmaster Hu aghast.

”You’re planning to return?” Seeing Li Taibai take the jade box and then leave his original position to yield it to the Sword Servant, Grandmaster Hu hurriedly asked.

If Li Taibai left, with such a beast tide unattended, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect would likely suffer heavy losses.

He did not understand the Sword Servant’s strength, and did not believe the Sword Servant could compare to a Great Power.

”The Sword Servant will stay. I need to go back once!” Li Taibai nodded and said.

Without waiting for Grandmaster Hu’s reply, Li Taibai’s figure disappeared.

Grandmaster Hu sighed helplessly; this sort of ultra-long-distance Space Movement ability of a Great Power made him both envious and resigned.

He could only hope the Sword Servant’s strength was enough to watch over the Cultivators on the battlefield, so that the Ten Thousand Beast Sect would not suffer too great a loss.

The Sword Servant’s fighting style was different from Li Taibai’s. Previously, although Li Taibai stayed far from the Cultivators on the battlefield, every Cultivator who was rescued understood that this Great Power Li Taibai was protecting them.

Because every time Li Taibai acted, a bolt of lightning would appear, lightning carrying unmatched might and thunderous roar.

This made his strikes extremely imposing; just hearing it, the Cultivators knew what had happened.

But the Sword Servant was different. When a Cultivator fell into danger, he would find the spirit beast attacking him suddenly dying inexplicably, a wound appearing on its body, yet the Cultivator saw nothing and sensed nothing.

The Sword Servant was using Li Shiming’s original Lifebound Flying Sword, the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’; the most terrifying aspect of the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ was precisely that it left no trace.

As the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ swept across the battlefield, given that the spirit beasts here were of too low grade, they simply could not force the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ to reveal itself.

If the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ encountered an enemy of the same rank, it might show its sword body briefly after attacking, but the strongest spirit beast on the battlefield was merely a Fourth Grade Late Stage Spirit Beast—how could it possibly make the ’Traceless Illusion Sword’ manifest.

Standing beside the Sword Servant, constantly observing his movements, Grandmaster Hu was likely the only one on the battlefield who understood the situation.

Within the portion of battlefield he could see, as long as a Cultivator fell into danger, that Cultivator would be rescued.

And since the one who had been rescuing people before—Li Taibai—had left, the one now rescuing Cultivators could only be this Sword Servant.

Moreover, from a wisp of aura that leaked from the Sword Servant during combat, he discerned that the Sword Servant’s aura was on par with Li Taibai’s.

”So the Sword Servant is also a Great Power!” He could not recognize the Sword Servant’s true identity, only taking him to be a Sword Cultivation Great Power.

His attitude toward the Sword Servant changed drastically, and his gaze grew much more respectful.

He also felt much more at ease about this beast tide; with a Great Power sitting in town, what was a mere beast tide worth.

On the other side, Li Taibai returned to the Ten Thousand Beast Sect and handed the jade box to Li Shiming.

Li Shiming took the jade box, considered for a moment, and at the back of the mountain where his cave abode was located, he released the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground.

Once released, the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground only occupied about ten mu on the rear side of the mountain, but the internal area was astonishingly vast.

A space that could accommodate tens of millions of spirit beasts would naturally not be small.

After setting out the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, he entered its interior.

When he saw the tens of millions of spirit beasts, he couldn’t help being shocked for a moment.

Remote observation and close inspection gave completely different feelings, especially under his ’Divine Eye Sight’; what he saw now was far richer than what he had observed through the Sword Servant.

Knowing the function of the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, he began to ponder why the Ancient Cultivators used the spirit beasts produced by the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground as food for powerful spirit beasts.

After personally observing these spirit beasts, he sensed a special aura from them.

Through IBMz15’s analysis, this special aura contained energy beneficial to almost all spirit beasts; if Spiritual Pets fed on the spirit beasts here, it would have a fairly good effect on enhancing the Spiritual Pets’ strength.

Li Shiming’s eyes lit up. Spirit pets like the ’Golden Winged Dapeng’, ’Thunder Beast’, the eleven ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’, and the one hundred and eight ’Eternal Water Bear Worms’ were all stuck at Half-step Fifth Grade now.

He had tried many methods, but these Spiritual Pets were originally extremely rare in the Cultivation World, so he could not acquire existing methods for advancing such Spiritual Pets to the fifth-grade. Even if he researched on his own, it was not something that would bear fruit in a short time.

Now he had finally found a direction: the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground would mass-produce spirit beasts for all his Spiritual Pets to treat as food, and then see whether they could break their shackles and advance to the fifth-grade.

In ancient times, Fourth Grade Spirit Beasts were used as food. Since Fourth Grade Spirit Beasts were mere fodder, then the beings these fodder served were, in theory, at least Fifth Grade Spiritual Beasts.

Since Fifth Grade Spiritual Beasts in ancient times could rely on such fodder to improve themselves, naturally the same could be done today.

Tens of millions of spirit beasts, plus the fact that once the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground was set out again, it reconnected to that specific spatial node, drew Spatial Energy from it, and resumed producing spirit beasts.

Only this time, under Li Shiming’s deliberate control, it would only produce Fourth Grade Late Stage Spirit Beasts.

Although this reduced the production speed, with sufficient quality, the effect on his Spiritual Pets would be much better.

Of course, before that, the tens of millions of spirit beasts on hand were already the food of all his Spiritual Pets.

Originally, Li Shiming did not have much confidence that he could raise all his Spiritual Pets to the fifth-grade, mainly because of resource constraints.

Even if he came up with advancement methods for the Spiritual Pets, spirit pets like the Golden Winged Dapeng and Thunder Beast were still manageable, and the eleven ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’ were somewhat troublesome, but if the one hundred and eight ’Eternal Water Bear Worms’ all wanted to advance, the resources required would probably exceed what could be gathered even by sweeping the entire Cultivation World.

Now it was different; the appearance of the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground made everything possible.

The ’Golden Winged Dapeng’, ’Thunder Beast’, eleven ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’, and one hundred and eight ’Eternal Water Bear Worms’ were summoned into the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, and Li Shiming issued his command.

In fact, even without his command, as soon as these Spiritual Pets entered the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground, they were already attracted by the aura of these spirit beasts.

However, Li Shiming discovered that the aura on the tens of millions of spirit beasts, besides attracting spirit beasts, also had a confusing effect on them.

It was just that the ’Golden Winged Dapeng’, ’Thunder Beast’, eleven ’Silver Winged Spirit Gu Insects’, and one hundred and eight ’Eternal Water Bear Worms’ were all at the Half-step Fifth Grade Realm, and thus had resistance to the confusing aspect of this aura.

If lower-grade spirit beasts were present, they would be drawn over by the aura of the spirit beasts here and would be confused, losing their spiritual intelligence.

This was likely the reason why not all spirit beasts in the beast tide were produced by the Ancient Spirit Beast Breeding Ground; wherever the beast tide passed, any spirit beasts attracted by this aura would join the beast tide, further strengthening its power.